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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Stating officially with Cygwin
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:17:55
Message-Id: 20101001111745.GF22041@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Stating officially with Cygwin by Al
1 On 01-10-2010 13:05:22 +0200, Al wrote:
2 > 2010/10/1 Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>:
3 > > On 01-10-2010 12:46:48 +0200, Al wrote:
4 > >> The parity compiler sounds very ambitious and I am curious. On the
5 > >> other hands I also see the advantages in Microsofts PATH approach.
6 > >> Dynamic libraries doen't depend on a special path any more and can be
7 > >> moved around. All you have to do, is to adapt the PATH variable to the
8 > >> new location. That makes your programs more portable.
9 > >
10 > > you have a wrong perception of portable to me
11 >
12 > It's not a wrong perception, it's a wider perception. In german it
13 > translates with: tragbar, transportabel, portabel.
14 >
15 > Here I use it in the sense of portablility inside one file system.
16 > Maybe you can find a better term.
17
18 porting to me sounds like being able to bring to other systems
19
20 you seem to be discussing relocation here
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23 --
24 Fabian Groffen
25 Gentoo on a different level

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